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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 7A – Installment Payments">
  <section prefix="§" num="7A-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Director.">“Director” means the Baltimore City Director of Finance or the Director’s designee.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Property.">“Property” means any unit of real property that is subject to the real property tax of Baltimore City.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 21-065,</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="7A-2" heading="Election of installment payments.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">The local portion of the real property taxes that will become due on any eligible property may be paid in a monthly installment payment schedule as authorized in &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="gtp|10-208"&gt;State Tax-Property Article § 10-208 &lt;/cite&gt;{“Installment payment schedule”}.</para>
    <para num="(b)">To be eligible for election of installment payments under this action &lt;em&gt;{section}&lt;/em&gt;, a property:<para num="(1)">shall be liable for payment of taxes under &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="gtp|5-101"&gt;§ 5-101 {“Persons liable”} of the Tax-Property Article of the Maryland Code&lt;/cite&gt;; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">may not be subject to a deed of trust, a mortgage, or any other encumbrance that includes the escrowing of property tax payments.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Term.">The term of any installment plan under this subtitle must comply with the State Tax-Property Article.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 21-065,</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="7A-3" heading="Rules and regulations.">
    <text>Subject to Title 4 {“Administrative Procedure Act – Regulations”} of the &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;City  General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;, the Director may adopt rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this subtitle.</text>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 21-065,</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
